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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jane Rylands say to Harald Böhm, the sculptor who had helped Jane move the papers out of Olga's house?
(a) "Be sure you don't tell anybody about today, or peggio per te."
(b) "Be sure you don't tell Arrigo about today, or peggio per te."
(c) "Be sure you don't tell Philip about today, or peggio per te."
(d) "Be sure you don't tell Olga about today, or peggio per te."

2. What is the title of the invitation Gardin sends out to Stefani's friends for his posthumous 63rd birthday party?
(a) "Love, Mario."
(b) "Poets Never Die."
(c) "Stefani Lives On."
(d) "In Remembrance."

3. Who did Jane Rylands want painted into the portrait of Dadie Rylands she had commissioned?
(a) The last Roman emperor.
(b) Peggy Guggenheim.
(c) Julian Barrow.
(d) Philip Rylands.

4. How does Migliori intend to secure the fresco?
(a) She has policeman on constant patrol.
(b) She'll cover it with plaster.
(c) She'll build a security wall.
(d) She'll cover it with Japanese paper to keep pieces from falling off.

5. What does Count Marcello's speech to the board center around?
(a) Guthrie's incompetence.
(b) His reasons for his impending resignation.
(c) Lovett's incompetence.
(d) The organization's image in Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets the contract to construct the three-dimensional ornaments inside the new theater?

2. What reason does Guthrie give the narrator for not resigning?

3. What does the Gazettino report about the theory that Carella and Marchetti set the fire for others?

4. Which of Henry James' novels was written with descriptions of the Palazzo Barbaro?

5. What does the narrator say De Luigi's painted flames match?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Gilberto Paggiaro has told Casson that he did from the moment he set out on his rounds at 8:30 to when he greeted the policeman in front of the opera house.

2. Explain Albert Gardin's suspicions about Stefani's death.

3. Describe the story of Daniel Curtis's expatriation to Venice.

4. Describe the evidence the narrator presents against Gardin's theories.

5. Describe Gianpietro Zucchetta's view of the fire and Casson's investigation.

6. Describe De Luigi and the narrator's activities at the end of Chapter 11 and how the police react.

7. Describe the feelings Daniel Curtis, Patricia's son, has about the Palazzo.

8. Describe the Rylands's involvement with Peggy Guggenheim.

9. Describe Mario Stefani and his role within Venice.

10. Describe Larry Lovett and his position with Save Venice.

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